Choosing Grit in the Face of Suffering — with Carrie Schuessler
Season 2, Episode 2 | Originally aired on May 3, 2020
About the episode
"I felt like there was a need for a space that's honest about suffering but also has hope and can show the good in the midst of that."
Carrie Schuessler always had a desire to encourage and help people, but the path that the Lord set her on probably came as a surprise to her. After she experienced some major health issues during her time in university, she took a step back and tried to find God in her suffering. Together, Carrie and I talk about how she came to encounter God through her suffering, how she came to start her podcast I Choose Grit, and the ways in which she's learning to live with an illness and not letting that stop her from living her life to the full.
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Meet Carrie Schuessler
Carrie Schuessler grew up in a small Wisconsin town and has since found herself becoming a resident of downtown Milwaukee. Carrie has 5 siblings and comes from a fairly stereotypical Irish-Catholic family. After experimenting with a number of different majors, she felt social work suited her variety of interests. Since then, she has grown to love the profession and completed her Master’s degree in Social Work in August 2018, with a concentration in Behavioral Health. After not growing up with a strong sense of community, she lived in a house of women committed to growth, prayer and simply doing life together for the majority of the past 4 years and is completely sold on the importance of doing life with others. She loves to be outside and explore pretty places, campfires, dancing, and watching sports if other people who care about them. Most of all, she loves cooking and sitting down to share a meal around a table to have real-life conversations with people she loves.
Carrie’s number one struggle these days is learning how to balance all of the above while living with an often disabling chronic illness. In efforts to share her experiences with suffering and connect with others willing to do the same, Carrie created a blog and recently started a podcast to highlight stories of what it actually looks like to keep showing up & fight for hope in the midst of life’s challenges. You can find her blog, podcast, and all her social media accounts under “I Choose Grit”. She would love to hear from you!